Outsourcing and/or offshoring is one of the important and key strategic approaches in
complex, dynamic and competitive global supply chains. It is one of the sustained trends of …

This paper presents a literature review of performance evaluation of logistics, and the use of
multi‐criteria decision‐making methods (MCDM) in this area. For this purpose, we covered …

In today's world, environmental problems are becoming increasingly serious, and countries
and regions are attaching great importance to them. Low-carbon and circular economy have …

The hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS) has gained great success as it can be used to
represent several linguistic terms or comparative linguistic expressions together with some …

As a proactive risk management instrument, failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) has
been broadly utilized to recognize, evaluate and eliminate failure modes of products …

Z-numbers are a new concept considering both the description of cognitive information and
the reliability of information. Linguistic terms are useful tools to adequately and effectively …

For this article, we shall expand the TODIM model to the MADM with the picture fuzzy
numbers (PFNs). Firstly, the concept, comparative method and distance of PFNs are …

Uncertainty and impreciseness usually exist widely in decision making problems nowadays.
When eliciting assessments over alternatives, decision makers tend to have some hesitancy …

This paper investigates a wide range of generalized Maclaurin symmetric mean (MSM)
aggregation operators, such as the generalized arithmetic MSM and the generalized …

The TODIM (an acronym in Portuguese for Interactive and Multicriteria Decision Making)
method is a multicriteria procedure that is receiving increasing attention from the scientific …